Volunteering - A First Step in Your Career by Cristian Florescu

Definitions of volunteering

• Volunteering is an activity carried out on its own initiative, of any individual, the benefit of others, without receiving a material consideration.
• Any action made by a person without the financial reward.
• Any work done without the constraint of a person rather with the intent to help without seeking an immediate financial winning.

Volunteering is a fundamental component of civil society. He animates the noblest aspirations of mankind - peace, freedom, opportunity, security and justice for all people.

In this era of globalization and the changes continue, the world becomes increasingly smaller, more interdependent, and more complex. Volunteering is one way that:
• can be strengthened and sustained values of community, of service to the neighbor and close attachment;
• people can exercise their rights and responsibilities of members of the community, while learning and develop their whole life, realized his full potential as human and
• can establish contact points between the differences that separate us so that we can live together in community healthy, strong, and work together to identify solutions to meet the challenges and to shape our common destiny.

It is best to do volunteering for:
• require the involvement of the entire community in identifying and solving their problems
• give a voice to those who can not be the sole
• gives others the opportunity to participate as volunteers
• complements but does not replace the services must be provided by other sectors or paid employees
• enables individuals to acquire new knowledge and skills and develop their maximum potential, confidence and creativity
• promote solidarity at family, community and also national and global